How long does it take to read Witness?
Witness by Karen Hesse takes about 2 hours 57 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 57 minutes
An evening's read
First published 2000. 161 pages, about 44,275 words. Written for children.
6 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 4 hours 55 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 57 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 51 minutes |
The page count is the median across 11 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A series of poems express the views of various people in a small Vermont town, including a young black girl and a young Jewish girl, during the early 1920s when the Ku Klux Klan is trying to infiltrate the town.
Subjects: Prejudices, Ku Klux Klan, Fiction, Jews, A novel in verse, Juvenile fiction
